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DoD’s first responders are operating with greater equipment diversity in maintaining effective command and control, communications and computers (C4) connectivity in rigorous environments.

Beyond the Point of Attack Robert Domenici LTC (USA Ret.) MPA, MSS, the nation’s 2nd Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Civil Support Team (CST) Commander discusses the birth of the national CST program and his experience.

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Key CBRNE industry representatives comment on current technology’s ability to effectively identify, verify and screen chemical agents, discussing new capabilities and trends in threat identification.

Leadership Perspective

A Summary of New and Enhanced Products Recently Introduced for the DoD Customer

Paul N. Stockton, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of

Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, shares his views on the state and direction of homeland defense activities, defense support of civil authorities, and DoD security affairs in the Western Hemisphere.

Preparing for the Field

NORAD Change of Command

BizWatch A Summary of Contracts, Partnering Agreements and Other Developments in the Industry Community

The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) Advanced

CBRNE Training Program at Army Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) supports direct interaction between military trainees with the field subject matter experts to promote greater field-ready preparation through increased hands-on training.

The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) provides policy

direction for DoD on a broad range of security challenges and threats including non-state sponsored groups and other nonconventional entities developing variations on CBRNE weapons aimed at U.S. interests.

Post-Terror Response The Joint Services are addressing the common threat of bioterror attack with decontamination techniques designed to meet each force’s unique requirements.

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TechUpdate

Calender of Events/Ad Index

Commander’s Corner Gen. Leslie Smith

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Insights With recent response to the white powder “Black Death” envelope incident at UC Irvine to the NYC Times Square bomb incident, U.S. civil support response team preparedness is trending toward greater integration in communications and training across civilian and military sectors.

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In this, the June issue of Tactical Defense Media’s CST & CBRNE Source Book, readers can tap articles highlighting the equipment, training, and policy and security issues such as those addressed by the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. Featured stories and briefs delve into topics to be the focus of many CBRNE-related conferences where leaders from all walks of CERFP, WMD, HAZMAT, and CBIRF defense will gather to discuss new efforts being launched by joint civil and defense agencies to counter the threat posed by terrorist groups and rogue nations. In a highlighted interview with BG Leslie C. Smith, Commandant of the new U.S. Army CBRNE School, Smith discusses the broader spectrum of combating WMD methodology and cutting edge technologies that provide U.S. forces with mission ready capabilities in chem-bio defense. In featured interview with Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America’s Security Affairs, CST &CBRNE sheds light on issues such as the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP), domestic antiterrorism, the Defense Continuity Program, and other homeland defense-related activities. A focused Industry Forum spotlights top leaders who reveal how their companies are working to more effectively identify, verify and screen chemical agents; and discuss some of the new capabilities and trends in chemical identification products. As always, feel free to contact me with your comments and suggestions.

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Commander’s Corner

BG Leslie C. Smith Commandant of the United States Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School

Brigadier General (BG) Leslie C. Smith is a native of Atlanta. He received an early commission from Georgia Southern University (GSU) in 1983 with the Georgia Army National Guard. While there, he served as a Fire Support Team Chief in the 1-230th FA Bn of the 48th Infantry Bde. In 1985, he graduated with a BBA in accounting and as a distinguished military graduate from GSU and was branched as a Chemical Officer. BG Smith’s operational assignments include, Battalion Chemical Officer, Assistant S3 and headquarters platoon leader in 3-52 ADA, Wildflecken, Germany, 82d Airborne Division in Fort Bragg Division Chemical Section Staff Officer, DIVARTY Chemical Officer and 21st Chemical Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. While in the 82d ABN DIV, he deployed as part of Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He also served in the Chemical Branch PERSCOM in Alexandria, Va. as the future readiness officer of the branch and then moved to the company grade assignment officer position. He was then assigned to the 23rd Chemical Battalion in Camp Carroll, Korea as the Battalion S3 and XO. He then served in the Joint Staff, J-5 where he served as the Chairman’s representative to the Biological Weapons Convention Protocol. From June 2001 to 2003, he assumed command of the 83rd Chemical Bn. The Soldiers of the battalion deployed in support of Operations Noble Eagle Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. From 2003 to 2004, BG Smith served in the Army Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs, G8 as the Deputy Division Chief and Chief NBC Branch for the Full Dimensional Protection Division. From August 2007 to June 2008, he served as the G3, 20th SUPCOM (CBRNE) responsible for the operations of two EOD groups, one CBRN Bed and multiple combat enablers for the command. On 28 June 2008 he became the 25th Chief of Chemical and Commandant of the United States Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School. His military education includes the Chemical Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Airborne School, Jumpmaster School, and Command and General Staff College. He holds a Masters of Science in Administration from Central

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Michigan University and a Master of Science in National Strategy from the National Defense University. His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (OLC), Legion of Merit, Defense Services Meritorious Service Medal, Army Meritorious Service Medal (3OLC), Army Commendation Medal (OLC), Senior Parachutist Badge, and both the Joint and Army Staff Identification Badges. BG Smith was interviewed by the CST& CBRNE Source Book staff on March 5, 2010. Q: What are the top training readiness challenges to the Army Chemical Corps? A: The Army, as well as the Chemical Corps, faces multiple challenges and strategic opportunities. We have been challenged with doing counter-insurgency (CI) missions for the last eight to nine years. We need to continue to win the current fight, but at the same time start focusing on dealing with the hybrid threat – the capability to do offense, defense, stability and civil support missions and at the same time being able to do the CI piece. These threats are similar to what the Israelis encountered with operations against Hezbollah or what the Russians executed during the Georgia conflict. We are trying to retool the CBRN and Combating WMD community – to get our formations pushed to do multiple things. What we have to make sure is our Soldiers and officers – the captains and lieutenants, the NCOs and young Soldiers – understand that the CBRN response is required during this full spectrum mission and in the counter insurgency environment. This is a tough mission. The missions could include anything from the civil responder on the civil support

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Commander’s Corner team reacting to an incident for which they train at Fort Leonard Wood or a Soldier who comes up to something in Iraq and Afghanistan and finds out it is chlorine – he has to deal with that situation. So, we try to focus our students on the cutting edge technology and give them the cutting edge capabilities to be mission ready. For us that also means focusing on the broader spectrum of the combating WMD methodology – and that still includes consequence management. This is an area that we are pushing our community to go to. You can no longer deal with only consequence management – the “after the fact.” We have to figure out how we are affected at what we call “to the left of an incident—before it happens.” Q: Discuss how your command’s courses remain dynamic and train students to understand changes in CBRN threats and effects. A: The key thing is to make sure that we get feedback from our students. We are always engaging them. One way we do this is through the Army’s Chemical Knowledge Network. If you have access to Army Knowledge Online (AKO), you can access that site to provide feedback. We use blogs and other different ways of getting feedback from our formations to see what things they want to do, and not only that, but what areas they need improvement in. We are constantly updating and changing our courses to adapt to that. If you were at Fort Leonard Wood five years ago and then came back today, you would not recognize the training environment that our young Soldiers work in today. Probably the biggest change in the school is now hazardous material (HAZMAT) accreditation. There are only a few places accredited by the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) to grant world-wide, DoD HAZMAT certification – and we are one of those. So our Soldiers (Active, National Guard and Army Reserve), and recently Airmen and Coastguardsmen, leave with the HAZMAT certifications. The captains and senior NCOs are now starting to get incident command qualified which allows them to run an incident site because they have that credential. The real powerful thing will be as our young Soldiers today are receiving the eight-hour block of instruction called Hazardous Material Awareness, in a few months our goal is to go to Hazardous Material Operations, which is the intermediate level. This certification gives them additional skills to use once they leave the military, if they elect to do that. Q: It sounds that your command is both recognizing the need to work in a HAZMAT environment and following DOD’s ever increasing emphasis on supporting civil authorities, when appropriate. A: The defense support to civil authorities has applicability for multiple missions. The more I think about it, consequence

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management is the same wherever you go, domestic or foreign. Either you are doing it at home or in another location supporting the state department or combatant commander. So either way, you have to figure out and understand the process of what you have to do to mitigate the risk and deal with the consequence. That’s what is so powerful about those skills those youngsters are learning. Regardless of wherever they are – you name the country – if something happens, the same skills they learned at Fort Leonard Wood or other places are applicable. The other important thing about this is that it ties into the “whole of government” approach. You have all the agencies working together, and it is important to start this work here at Fort Leonard Wood. We are training Chemical Corps captains in incident command now. In April, we will have our first incident command class with chemical, military police, and potentially engineers. So if you think about everything that really deals with consequence management and civil support and stability operations – all of these Soldiers will be sitting in the Incident Command Course and will start developing relationships today that will be useful either in the U.S. or overseas. Q: Describe how the command uses learning technologies to better enable on-site and distributed training. A: We use a lot of technology. The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence has Classroom 21s which give instructors the ability to use a lot of different instruction methodologies. What we are trying to do is get technology available for all of our students, starting with our captains who have access to laptops. The longer term goal is to get all of our books placed on electronic reading devices so they do not have all of the books to carry each day. A lot of the training is digital focused – the command post of the future – the other things we see them working. Another aspect is the Captains Career Course does a combined warfighter forum, so all of the three branches, chemical, engineer and military police, work through problems together as different staffs. Everyone has a job including our international partners who participate in that course. They get a chance to see some of the distributed operations and do those things. We also saw a need for Soldiers to gain a basic understanding of biology, chemistry and radiology, so we established a course online – just to get the basics of those disciplines. Our Directorate of Training led the way to get these classes online and work the content for improvement of each class. Our long-term goal, and we are about 85-to-90 percent there, is to place every class from the CBRN School online. Once students graduate they can go back and find any course and provide feedback. We are also trying to do this with afteraction reviews on the secret side.

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Commander’s Corner Q: To follow-up, provide industry with several areas of innovation in serious games, simulations and other technology enablers which would enhance your command’s ability to deliver learning. A: Yes, all of these! The challenge is how you take the content from the presentation briefings for different vignettes of operations, be they in Iraq or Afghanistan, that has something to do with the HAZMAT threat, or even something that happened in the U.S., like the ricin incident in Las Vegas [February 2008 at a hotel in that metropolitan area] for example, and have the students go through an effective problem solving process. Another of our initiatives is a series of conferences, the Joint Senior Leaders Course, co-sponsored by the Joint Requirements Office (J-8) in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OCJS) and hosted by our school. We take some of the key civilian and military leaders, from the former U.S. ambassador, who negotiated with Libya to declare their chemical weapons to retired GEN Barry McCaffrey along with a host of other leaders in the Combating WMD community, to have a forum to focus on CWMD and CBRN defense. It is critical to hear firsthand accounts from the actual practitioners. This realism helps the students in the JSLC class but also as teaching points for the Fort Leonard Wood community. Any type of gaming that we can use is useful to our instruction. We are working with our higher headquarters, the Combined Arms Center, to develop gaming capabilities, but we are always looking for partnerships with industry and academia to move forward. Q: Discuss the CBRN School’s training support for National Guard Civil Support Team (CST) and CBRNE-Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) units. A: The CST program has been around for about 10 years. They started off as RAID [Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection] teams. There was a series of different blocks of instruction at various locations. The OCJS and the Department of the Army directed that we decide on one place for training and the Civil Support Team Class was started. That course has graduated multiple Soldiers and Airmen who have been trained in the fundamentals of civil support. The goal is, as we discussed earlier, to have every CBRN Soldier have some level of HAZMAT training. Another great thing is that the National Guard Bureau and the Army had the foresight to build the Lieutenant Terry CBRN Responder Training Facility which is a state-of-the-art facility that allows them to do a lot of hands on training with realistic scenarios: going in underground tunnels; using mock-ups of multiple real world buildings and accident scenes. A related key issue that we are presently working is the core course that all students need to complete - HAZMAT certification - and then you branch off into the different skill sets you have to use – the civil support skills course, or the technical escort course

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for the Soldiers who are going to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan, and other technical escort missions; or the CBRN consequence management dismounted reconnaissance and mass casualty courses that deal with the CCMRF [CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force]/CERFP mission set area that we are training Soldiers to. Q: Share with us any new courses and other programs of instruction the school will add in 2010. A: What you will see is the ability to do as much training “inhouse” as we can. But what we have also done is use one mobile training team because we understand other requirements that have to be done – by exporting that training out to different locations. This year, 3rd Chemical Brigade, sent a mobile training team to Fort Carson, Colo. to support Soldiers preparing to deploy overseas. We also have executed training support development for the Iraqi CBRN Defense Company. We sent a team to assist the 20th Support Command develop and execute training requirements with the Iraqi Army. The longer term goal is to get our teams to execute “final exam like” missions to demonstrate their capability. Our first goal is to take our captains from Fort Leonard Wood on an exercise to places they have not seen before. We would give them a mission and objective and let them go after it to focus on integrating everything they have learned during the course. Fortunately, the students have the capability to take part in live agent training here at Fort Leonard Wood, and this really gives them a lot of confidence in the equipment and their ability to detect and protect against those things. Q: Anything else to add? A: Command Sgt. Maj. Ted Lopez, the Regimental command sergeant major for the Chemical Corps and I would like to thank all of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen who volunteer to serve the nation. A special thanks to those troopers who are deployed in harm’s way in multiple theaters and to their families who support them. We would also like to thank everyone who works each day at Fort Leonard Wood to train our nation’s most prized possession, our sons and daughters. The last thing I would ask everyone to think about is not the ownership of a mission, but how we can work in an enterprise approach to deliver the right type of capability for the nation. It really does not matter if the capability is in the National Guard, Army Reserve, or active force. Whether that be a CBRN Soldier, an EOD Soldier , a functional area 52 as a nuclear weapons specialist, a Civil Support Team member, an Air Force Disaster Response specialist, Marine or Coastguard Strike Force Team member…at the end of the day the nation expects us to deliver the capabilities to defend our way of life.. And that’s what we at the U.S. Army CBRN School and Chemical Corps are trying to do. contact@tacticaldefensemedia.com

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Beyond

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The nation’s second national Civil Support Team (CST) commander shares his thoughts on the birth and evolution of the U.S. CST program. By Robert Domenici LTC (USA Ret.) MPA, MSS

September 11, 2001 was a defining moment in my military and follow-on career. Within minutes of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center, I, the nation’s 2nd Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Civil Support Team (CST) Commander, was alerted, and deployed in support of the efforts at hand. The events that followed would validate the justification for a national CST program.

domestic response force structure throughout the United States. Much of this effort has taken place behind closed doors without much fanfare, but whatever community that has received a CST has embraced them and formed bonds that are now the force multiplier for mitigating a CBRN event. These teams need to be lauded for what they bring to the response community and for the support and interaction that has and is continuing to take place in helping domestic response forces grow in their training and response capability.

Over the past 10 years, I had the opportunity to serve as the Commander of the 2nd CST for three of those years. I developed a keen After retiring, I decided to build an understanding of the training and vulnerabilities organization that could procure, train and of the Domestic Response Agencies (DRAs) sustain the requirements of the military and throughout FEMA Region II. As part of this civilian first responder organizations created service, I was asked to serve on former NY under the U.S. Strategic Response Initiative governor Pataki’s WMD Task Force. This (SRI). Started in 2004, the SRI has grown program grew out of the DHS Grants that into a $3.2 million dollar endeavor. Since its were provided to New York State to build Robert Domenici inception SRI has supported the training of its capabilities to respond to future threats. the first joint Sunni/Shiite HAZMAT team, I also served as Deputy Director for the NY Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program. As Baghdad Fire Department, training programs in Saipan, Rota, Deputy Director, I was responsible for coordinating and Marinara Islands, Afghanistan, and other locations. SRI has developing the training programs for 62 counties under the also been awarded several ID/IQ contracts, most notably the program. The experience educated me on the training needs Guardian Program. as well as the equipment needs of the responders in the field. For more information, contact Robert Domenici at Since their inception in 1998, the WMD CSTs have grown robert.domenici@strategicri.com. to become a critical link and essential part of DoD and

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TechUpdate High Performance, Portable Chemical Detector Smiths Detection has launched the LCD-NEXUS, a highly selective and sensitive Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) and Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC) detector suitable for harsh environments. The portable system is capable of detecting harmful agents down to miosis levels, greatly increasing critical information needed by emergency responders and military personnel. Based on technology originally developed for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) program, the largest chemical protection program in the world, the LCD-NEXUS is an extension of Smiths Detection’s LCD product which uses advanced Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) technology. The system provides critical chemical details including class, type, concentration and dosage as well as CWA identification. Its communications capabilities enable systems to be networked together and remotely controlled,

Next-Generation Raman Platform Unveiled Ahura Scientific released its next generation Raman platform for safety and security applications. Designed for the rapid identification of unknown solids and liquids, FirstDefender RM and FirstDefender RMX build on the success of the flagship FirstDefender to deliver advanced new features and capabilities. The instruments are up to five times faster and significantly smaller and lighter than their market-leading predecessor. FirstDefender RM and FirstDefender RMX are rugged handheld Raman spectrometers for use by first responders, homeland security, military, law enforcement and forensic chemistry personnel. The instruments allow users to quickly identify unknown chemicals from a vast sample library of more than 10,000 pure substances including: explosives, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), toxic industrial materials (TIMs), chemical warfare agents (CWAs), white powders, narcotics, precursors and more. Ahura Scientific’s advanced chemometric algorithms enable automatic mixture analysis with every scan and ensure responders can be confident in the accuracy and reliability of results. Both instruments are certified to U.S. military’s MIL-STD 810F specifications for ruggedness including drop, shock, vibration and operation in extreme temperatures. For more info: Doug Fraim - hura@famapr.com

creating an invisible, low-maintenance and reliable CWA warning grid for enhanced perimeter protection. Simon Read, Product Manager, Global Military & Emergency Response, Smiths Detection, said: “The LCDNEXUS simultaneously samples for traces of CWAs and TICs to provide real-time warning for threats. Because we use dual dopant technology with our unique miniature preconcentrators, we not only increased the sensitivity of the device but also the selectivity. This cuts false alarms and makes the LCD-NEXUS an obvious choice for civilian and military users.” In addition to use in perimeter protection applications, the LCD-NEXUS will also serve fixed or moving platforms like ships and tightly confined areas where highly reliable and dependable detection solutions with low false alarm rates are necessary. For more info: www.smithsdetection.com

New Mobile Shelter System Military shelter manufacturer DHS Systems LLC (DRASH) recently displayed several products featuring the latest in mobile infrastructure technology, including an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) maintenance facility, specially-insulated soft-walled shelters, a 3-lane decontamination system and a satellite support shelter, at the company’s 2010 Capabilities Demonstration. The event, which was held near DHS’s manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, was attended by military officials and first responders from across the area. The facilities are based on the company’s line of Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter (DRASH) systems that has been trusted for more than 20 years. Part of the U.S. Army’s Standard Integrated Command Post System (SICPS), DRASH is a mobile, quick erect/strike shelter system that integrates shelter, mobility, environmental control and power in one complete package. Several shelters were also outfitted with Deployable Command and Control Equipment (DC2E) - a line of communications equipment that joins various feeds of information onto single or multiple screens, allowing users to view images from across the battlefield or incident scene – during the demonstration. In addition to its newest shelter systems, DHS Systems unveiled several of its new digitally-controlled, energy efficient utility support trailers at the demo. The trailers, which allow users to connect several generators together as part of a single, highlyintelligent power grid, help reduce fuel consumption and provide users with greater flexibility in the field. For more info: www.drash.com

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TechUpdate Handheld Thermal Camera and Fence FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced two new products, the Guardsman handheld thermal security camera and the FLIR Thermal Fence.

The Guardsman The Guardsman offers security professionals an affordable, high-quality thermal camera that lets them see clearly in total darkness, providing a substantial tactical advantage, said the company. The camera provides both grey scale and color thermal imaging, and can display digital temperature readouts of objects in the cross-hair. Using a 320 x 340 thermal imaging core, the Guardsman provides four times the image clarity and detail of earlier systems, allowing security officers to see more of their surrounding than they could with any other night vision technology, said the company. FLIR’s advanced imageprocessing algorithms produce crisp, clear thermal video day and night, in good weather or bad. the company added. The Guardsman has two available lenses, 24 and 7, and a 2X lens extender for the 24 lens, providing maximum flexibility and offering security officers the ability to see where no fixed site or pan / tilt camera can.

Thermal Fence The FLIR Thermal Fence is a fully integrated perimeter alert system that provides simultaneous threat detection and assessment capability. By combining FLIR’s thermal security cameras and the FLIR Sensors Manager (FSM) control and management software, the Thermal Fence is a turn-key solution for integrating and displaying the status and feedback from all perimeter sensors on one convenient display. The combination provides automated perimeter approach surveillance, intrusion detection and alert capabilities for every perimeter security application, says the company, including critical infrastructure, petrochemical facilities, nuclear facilities, commercial companies and residential installations. The fence includes IP thermal cameras and gives security instant, automated threat detection and visual threat assessment capability, around the clock in one, easyto-use package. The geo-reference mapping function also features FLIR’s slew-to-cue function, which commands FLIR’s pan / tilt IP thermal cameras to point at the precise coordinates of any alarm generated by any sensor on the fence network. For more info: www.flir.com

Air Cargo X-ray Inspection Systems Billerica, MA-based American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E), an X-ray detection solutions supplier, reports that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has added its Gemini 6040, Gemini 7555 and Gemini 100100 X-ray inspection systems to its Air Cargo Screening Qualified Technology List (ACSQTL).

transmission X-ray with AS&E’s proprietary Z Backscatter X-ray technologies for comprehensive threat detection of air cargo.

Inclusion on the ACSQTL allows certified air cargo facilities to purchase systems directly from AS&E to meet the requirements of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, which mandates 100 percent inspection of air cargo carried on passenger airplanes by August 2010.

“Our Gemini system’s multi-technology capability can detect both metallic and organic threats, providing security officials with a unique ability to detect explosives,” Anthony Fabiano, AS&E’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “Additionally, Z Backscatter technology produces photolike images that are easy to interpret, facilitating the operator’s analysis time to efficiently move cleared cargo onto the planes.”

The company says its Gemini systems offer certified air cargo screeners the combination of dual-energy

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Change of Command

NORAD Gets New Leader Admiral James Winnefeld recently succeeded General Gene Renuart as the next commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

On May 19, Admiral James Winnefeld assumed the role of next commander of NORAD/NORTHCOM in a change of command ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Adm Winnefeld led the USS Enterprise through Operation

Enduring Freedom immediately after the attacks on 9-11. As a carrier strike group commander, he supported Operation Iraqi Freedom and conducted maritime security missions in the Persian Gulf. Adm Winnefeld will now be tasked with responding to natural disasters affecting American interests and partnering with Canada, Mexico and Caribbean neighbors in securing U.S. borders and sovereignty.”  Coming from an assignment as Director for Strategic Plans and Policy on the Joint Staff, Winnefeld has also commanded the U.S. 6th Fleet and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. He noted the strong relationship between the U.S. and Canada and NORAD as part of the bedrock of the two nations’ bi-lateral relations. “Canada and the United States have an exceptional partnership,” he said, pointing out recent U.S. and Canadian cooperation in places like Afghanistan and Haiti.  In recognition of senior Mexican military officers present at the ceremony, Winnefeld expressed his desire to strengthen the relationship between U.S. and Mexican military forces.   Citing a connection between those who serve on the front lines and the mission of NORAD and U.S. NORTHCOM, Winnefeld recognized two Fort Carson Soldiers in the audience who were recovering from wounds they suffered in combat as well as “Gold Star” family members, people who’ve lost loved ones on deployment, who were at the ceremony.  “When one of these devoted young men and women is wounded or lost in action, it’s not an isolated event far away,” he said. “There’s a clear connection between what these very special people did and do over there and what we do over here.”  Winnefeld ended his remarks by making those Soldiers and Gold Star families a promise.  “We at NORAD and U.S. NORTHCOM pledge to you, who have given so much to our country, that in the brief moment in time that we are privileged to serve in this place, we will give it our very best effort,” he said. For more information, visit http://www.northcom.mil/news/2010/051910.html

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Communications Enablers DoD first responders rely on diverse communications equipment to maintain connectivity with each other and their civilian counterparts. By Chris Sheehy, Editor

Rapidly deployable, secure and reliable communications remain benchmark requirements for U.S. DoD first responders. The lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and other recent natural and manmade events have also made it imperative that department response teams remain interoperable with other department units and civilian organizations.

bandwidth in austere environments are expensive to acquire and operate. These transmission systems also offer significant issues with respect to requirements such as training, space and power, and often due to stringent Service Component Information Assurance protocols can limit the interoperability of systems and applications,” he added.

Current and planned equipment offerings allow the department’s first responders to operate in their rigorous environments and maintain effective command, control, communications and computer (C4) connectivity, according to representatives from the U.S. Marine Corps’ Chemical, Biological incident Response Force (CBIRF) and one National Guard Civil Response Team (CST).

For external communications CBIRF has a system similar to that used by the National Guard Bureau’s WMD-CSTs, the Unified Command Suite (UCS). “The UCS comprises, at its base level, a small commercial truck carrying a DoD Ku-band satellite terminal capable of 1.5Mb/s bandwidth, and a SUV with a commercial Ku-band satellite and BGAN terminal,” explained Pollock. He continued, “Both of these platforms also carry a suite of systems from high frequency (HF) radios, to Voice over Internet Protocol and DSN telephones, but the primary function of these vehicles is to support an initial response force (IRF) with a robust and effective data solution.”

CBIRF Insights The Marine Corps’ CBIRF is a unique unit within the service. “Due to the nature of what we do, the preponderance of our external communications with higher and adjacent units is via data circuits riding the Non-Classifed Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET) and commercial Internet,” said Colonel John Pollock, commander, CBIRF. He added that this arrangement is beneficial to all involved, in that the access to the Internet is so proliferate amongst both DoD and civilian agencies, that information sharing is made easier, more efficient and for many situational awareness tools, more autonomous. “The downside to the reliance on the Internet for information sharing is the transmission systems that offer acceptable

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The UCS enables the IRF to populate chat based forums such as Jabber Chat, collaboration tools such as a NORAD/ NORTHCOM-hosted SharePoint Portal and the DoD version of Adobe Connect, Defense Connect Online. Pollock added, “The UCS also allows us to use secure DoD Google Earth servers to build situational awareness and observe friendly force tracks utilizing several types of position reporting systems such as the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2), TYPHON and PALLAS-B. These data circuits allow for seamless collaboration from the operational to tactical levels of command.”

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As redundant data transmission systems, CBIRF also employs INMARSAT, BGAN and commercial wireless wide-area network AirCards.

operate in diverse environments. One overview of a CST’s equipment table of allowance and its unique capabilities was provided by the Hawaii National Guard’s 93rd CST.

For more tactical types of command – from talking within the IRF, to adjacent units and civilian first responders under the Incident Command System (ICS) – CBIRF employs a host of radio systems. Pollock pointed out, “Internally we utilize tactical hand held radios (THHR) such as Motorola’s XTS-5000, and for reach-back to our higher command we utilize TACSAT and HF radios (PRC-117 and TRC-209/PRC-150s respectively). For talking to adjacent DoD forces we utilize very high frequency (VHF) and HF radio systems, due to there already being a high degree of interoperability of these systems.”

The unit’s communications mission is task organized in terms of personnel and equipment to respond in three strike team package configurations. The 93rd CST provides communications personnel and equipment in different configurations, with some commonality of equipment and capabilities between the response packages. While the Hawaii NG unit has equipment that is replicated throughout the CST program, it also has unique holdings that allow it to maintain connectivity with state and other government entities. “In our communications world, interoperability plays a vital role,” said Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Laurel, unit commander.

Communications interoperability between DoD and other agencies’ first responders remains a vexing problem to address. Issues such as frequency bands, cryptographic loadsets and other factors come into play for a short or no-notice response. “To mitigate this, the IRF utilizes radio bridging systems, such as the ACU-1000 which is resident in the UCS and the Incident Commanders’ Radio Interface (ICRI) and while working in the National Capital Region we can use the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system,” said Pollock.

One CST Unit Perspective The National Guard Bureau’s Civil Support Teams’ (CST) wide-array of communications equipment permits them to

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The 93rd’s top-tier communications equipment option consists of two persons and all equipment on-hand with the Unified Command Suite (UCS) of systems:

- Motorola Radios (Cache): UHF, VHF and 800 MHz; - ACU-1000; - Iridium SATCOM Phones (secure and non-secure); - Incident Commander Radio Interface (ICRI); - SATCOM with secure (voice, data and fax), non-secure (voice, data and fax); - Direct connect online (DCO); and - Video telecommunication conference (VTC)

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A second Strike Team configuration consists of one communications professional and an ADVON Package with more limited equipment, including: - SATCOM non-secure (voice, data, and fax); - Radio communications cache: UHF, VHF and 800 MHz; - ICRI; - International Maritime Satellite (INMARSAT); - Iridium SATCOM Phones (secure and non-secure); and - DCO A third CST Strike Team option consists of one communications expert and limited equipment without ADVON: - radio communications cache: UHF, VHF and 800 MHz; - ICRI; - DCO; and - Iridium SATCOM Phones (secure and non-secure) This CST also operates with: - Pacific Land Mobile Radio, a DoD asset with UHF trunking capability over different areas in the Islands; and a proprietary MACOM Radio. The radio is provided by the Honolulu Police Department and works only on Oahu.

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Concurrent Developments A number of communications developments are occurring throughout the DoD first responders’ programs. With so much of C4 becoming IP-based CBIRF is taking an interest in “mesh networks”, i.e., multiple line-of-sight (LOS) radio systems simultaneously talking to each other and allowing the commander and operators to pass data, real time video, voice and sensor data from the hot-zone through to the command infrastructure at the force’s Rear Area Operations Center. “A mesh system utilizes current radio transmission systems married to small processors similar to routers to pass on information from one radio to the other allowing for us to ‘breadcrumb’ the battlefield to mitigate the limitations of LOS systems and also allows us to integrate this feed from multiple sources (HAZMAT sensors, cameras, biometric sensors, and computer systems) into our larger transmission systems such as the UCS,” Pollock explained. Additionally with the national expansion of the Project 25 Land Mobile Radio System Trunking Network, CBIRF would expect an expansion of P25-capable THHRs. This would allow for greater range and inter-agency interoperability.

For its part, C-AT is supporting several initiatives. A digital wireless intercom, originally developed for department Special Since the inception of the CST units’ ADVON component, the small, portable radio gateway/bridge, the Incident Commanders’ Medical Augmentation Response Teams (SMART), and currently Radio Interface™ (ICRI™ ), has been part of the ADVON fielded by the U.S Army MEDCOM’s Radiation Assessment communications equipment cache, Seth Leyman, president, Medical Team and the Health and Human Services’ National Medical Response Team Central, will begin CST Communications -Applied Technology (C-AT), told the recon team field evaluations. Leyman noted that this Source Book. ‘duplex’ system will provide up to six personnel in Level A/B ensembles with intra-team, hands-free, “Weighing under four pounds, operating on 8 “AA” radio communications. “During a mass casualty batteries for 30 hours, and not requiring a computer incident, wireless amplified speakers will be able for set-up, the ICRI has been an effective tool for the to provide victims with information provided by the teams to rapidly deploy cross band and/or cross recon personnel in the hot zone. Linked to the team’s platform interoperability with federal, state, and local existing land mobile radio and/or secure cell phone, public safety agencies,” he explained. Seth Leyman the team and TOC will be able to provide real time President, C-AT situational-aware information to one another. Multiple ICRIs have been certified during the Department of systems can operate without ‘cross-talk’ so CERFP Defense Interoperability Communications Exercises. medical and decon components can utilize their own intra-team Allowing the CSTs to operate anytime/anywhere, many CST wireless intercoms at the same time,” he added. teams have added a fully decon-able version of the ICRI to Currently, four CSTs are evaluating a C-AT developed their cache. “Two versions have been deployed, the ICRI-E™ and the ICRI-2PED™,”Leyman remarked. He continued, “The headset/throat microphone/XTS-5000 P-T-T assembly, which former supports the connection of up to five radios, a handset enhances voice quality/voice discrimination both to and from for the RTO, and a cell phone/land-line telephone ‘patch.’ The the user in Level “A”. “Initial field reports during development, latter supports the connection of two radios, a handset for by the Kentucky recon team, indicated that the ‘solution’ the RTO, and a cell phone/land-line telephone ‘patch’ and is addressed the ‘issues’ they have with the currently fielded used primarily by the recon/survey team members as a tactical equipment,” said Leyman. repeater during in-building, tunnel, and ship boarding incidents.” Leyman noted that while the CERFP communications cache requirements have yet to be defined, teams who have worked closely with their associated CST have procured the ICRI2PED to ensure reliable incident command-to-entry team radio communications in areas of poor RF propagation.

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John Kenneweg

Account Manager, Federal and Defense Thermo Scientific Portable Optical Analysis (formerly Ahura Scientific, Inc.) Technology continues to advance to meet the needs of the CST/CBRNE community. Making John Kenneweg chemical identification instruments smaller, faster and tougher is a permanent requirement, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also critical to ensure that instruments provide extremely accurate, reliable information that can be acted on with confidence. In an incident response, timing is critical and an accurate identification can mean the difference between life and death.

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One widely accepted technology that has been used in the lab for decades and in the field for the last several years is FTIR spectroscopy. Early field FTIR instruments were large and lacked the ruggedness that is required for operation in typically demanding conditions. With more commercial technology being deployed, users are demanding smarter, more flexible products that require less training and minimal maintenance; instruments that are designed for their unique applications and operating conditions. Leveraging our expertise in miniaturization, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve developed a handheld, ruggedized FTIR spectrometer, TruDefender FT, which is designed to be taken directly to threat. At less than 3 lbs (1.4kg), TruDefender FT is the first FTIR spectrometer that was designed from the ground up for CBRNE response applications. It offers easy operation,

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flexible power options and reliable results. Like our other products, it has been thoroughly tested by the independent labs, military test facilities and in the field. TruDefender FT provides broad identification capability for chemical agents, as well as explosives, narcotics, precursors and other substances a team may encounter in the field. We’ve designed all of our instruments to take the guesswork out of chemical identification. Even with minimal training, users can quickly obtain identification results, even of mixtures. Further, all of our safety and security products are independently certified to MIL-STD 810F standards for ruggedness including drop, shock, vibration and operation in extreme temperatures. These instruments are truly fielddeployable, designed to meet the needs of military personnel.

Christopher Wrenn Senior Director of Sales & Marketing Environics USA

Each Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) detection technology has its challenges. Closed-Loop Ion Mobility Spectroscopy (IMS) need Christopher Wrenn to be exercised once a month and has a relatively high logistical footprint. SAWs (Surface Acoustical Wave) can be specific, but often lacks sensitivity and can fail catastrophically in the presence of benign chemical vapors. Flame Spectrophotometry is very sensitive but only detects chemicals by class, leading to false alarms, and has one of the highest costs of ownership and highest logistical footprints in the class. One development with the potential for short-term improvement is Differential IMS (DMS) which promises improved speciation over traditional IMS. However the one product that uses DMS hasn’t yet been able to deliver on this promise.

What we learn from this brief review is that each technology has its strengths and weaknesses. We can address this by putting multiple sensors into one “Orthogonal” detector. In Orthogonal detectors more sensors are added to increase sensitivity and improve false alarm rejection. This February we released the ChemPro100i for sale in the North American market. It adds six additional sensors to our proven ChemPro100 open-loop IMS detection engine. It provides better sensitivity, more speciation and more chemicals detected in a proven low maintenance package. Most users will never encounter CWAs so they don’t get the opportunity to see how the detector works in the real world. At Environics we are using our IMS based orthogonal detection engine to detect an increasingly wide array of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) that are much more likely to be encountered in the real world. This greater detection functionality means that the ChemPro100i will be used more frequently and users will have greater confidence in it when they encounter a wide variety of potentially toxic environments. User feedback about these increased uses is extremely positive.

Geoff Hewitt

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Field experience has shown that commonly used units are subject to detection issues in the presence of high humidity and fail to adequately detect certain critical agents such as Mustard, Tabun and some TICs due to design constraints.

Nerve Agents • GA (Tabun), GB (Sarin) • GD (Soman), GF (Cyclo-Sarin) / VX Blister Agents

A new line of PID/4gas units utilizes patented Fence Electrode Technology to minimize loss of signal and drift at high humidity. Fence Electrode Technology incorporates a mechanical solution to spurious drift-causing current present in conventional PIDs at high humidity. The extremely low volume of the detector minimizes loss of signal due to competing water vapor molecules, without resorting to software compensation with its inherent compromises. The most obvious manifestation of Fence Electrode Technology is that it enables the routine field use of a ppb enabled PID/4gas detector. The FirstCheck series of PID/4gas units from ION Science is the world’s first to incorporate Fence Electrode Technology and ppb capability into a hand held survey unit. In addition, FirstCheck PID/4gas units are designed with a detector-first flow path ensuring that even the most difficult to detect compounds are not lost by adsorption prior to entering the PID. PID/4gas units equipped with Fence Electrode Technology finally make good on the promise of sensitive, consistent broad spectrum screening for VOCs, TICs and CWAs.

Bob Durstenfeld Senior Director of Corporate Marketing RAE Systems RAE Systems offers a range of portable and wireless instruments capable of detecting both chemical warfare agents (CWA) and toxic industrial chemicals (TIC). RAE Systems instruments have Bob Durstenfeld seen recent deployment at the NFL Super Bowl, the NBA All Star Game and the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, BC. Each of these sites saw a mixed deployment of handheld instruments with wireless capability, as well as fixed-location wireless monitors. All of the instruments were able to communicate in real time with remote incident commanders. Deployed instruments included AreaRAE, ChemRAE, MultiRAE Plus and ppbRAE3000. Each instrument provided visibility to a different unseen threat.

• Ammonia

• Nitric Oxide

• Carbon Monoxide

• Nitrogen Dioxide

• Chlorine

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• Phosphine

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• Hydrogen Sulfide The wireless AreaRAE and handheld MultiRAE Plus are both multi-sensor platforms that are capable of supporting up to five of the following direct-reading sensors for TICs. Like the ChemRAE, the MultiRAE Plus can be made wireless with the RAELink 3. • Arsine (SA)

• Phosgene

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• Lewisite

• Tabun (GA)

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• N Mustard (HN-1) In addition to the sensors listed above, the AreaRAE monitor can also be equipped with a gamma radiation monitor to detect radiological threats. One of the fastest “broadband” sensors for CWA detection is the photoionization detector, or PID. Both the AreaRAE and MultiRAE Plus can be equipped with a PID that measures in the parts per million range;for more sensitive measurement the ppbRAE 3000 provides detection down to parts per billion. The ppbRAE 3000 is also compatible with the RAELink 3 and the AreaRAE wireless network. As can be seen from the diagram below, the PID provides an earlier warning of the presence of a CWA, but it does not provide specific identification. The list below identifies specific CWAs that can be detected with a PID. CWAs that are detectable by a PID

The ChemRAE is an ion mobility spectrometer based instrument that can be connected to the AreaRAE wireless network using a RAELink 3 wireless modem. The RAELink 3 provides up to a twomile radio range (and more if repeaters are deployed). The ChemRAE is capable of detecting the following compounds: • HD (Sulfur Mustard)

• Arsine

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Leadership Perspective International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Assistant Secretary Stockton joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in August 1990 as assistant professor in the Department of National Security Affairs. From 1995 until 2000, he served as Director of the Center for CivilMilitary Relations, assisting over 80 nations to strengthen democratic control over their security forces and deepen security cooperation with the United States. In 2000, he founded and served as the acting dean of the School of International Graduate Studies. He was appointed Associate Provost for Institutional Development in 2001. From 2002 – 2006, Assistant Secretary Stockton served as Director, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, where he helped develop the curricula to strengthen U. S. all-hazards preparedness at local, state, and Federal levels. Prior to his confirmation, Assistant Secretary Stockton was a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focused on how U.S. security institutions respond to changes in the threat (including the rise of terrorism), and on the interaction of Congress and the Executive branch in restructuring national security budgets, policies, and institutional arrangements.

Paul N. Stockton Assistant Secretary of Defense Homeland Defense and America’s Security Affairs

Paul N. Stockton was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs on April 28, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009. In this position, he is responsible for the supervision of homeland defense activities, defense support of civil authorities, and Western Hemisphere security affairs for the Department of Defense. Assistant Secretary Stockton received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1976 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1986. From 1986-1989, Assistant Secretary Stockton served as legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, advising the senator on defense, intelligence, counter-narcotics policy, and served as the senator’s personal representative to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1989 – 1990, Assistant Secretary Stockton was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, University. During his graduate studies at Harvard, he served as a research associate at the

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Assistant Secretary Stockton is co-editor of Homeland Security, a graduate text to be published by Oxford University Press. He served on the editorial review board of Homeland Security Affairs, a quarterly journal he helped establish in 2005. His research has appeared in Political Science Quarterly, International Security, and Strategic Survey. He is co-editor of Reconstituting America’s Defense: America’s New National Security Strategy (1992). He has also published an Adelphi Paper and has contributed chapters to a number of books, including James Lindsay and Randall Ripley, eds., U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War (1997). Q. Tell us about the roles and responsibilities of the OASD/HD. A: The ASD(HD&ASA), under the authority, direction, and control of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)), serves as the principal civilian advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the USD(P) on homeland defense activities, Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), and Western Hemisphere security matters. The ASD(HD&ASA) shall: Provide overall supervision of homeland defense activities of the Department of Defense, to include the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP); domestic antiterrorism; the Defense Continuity Program; other homeland defense-related activities; and alignment of homeland defense policies and programs with DoD policies for counterterrorism and counternarcotics.

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Leadership Perspective Q. Summarize the policy direction on homeland defense from the recently released Quadrennial Defense Review. A: The 2010 QDR was a large step forward for the homeland defense mission. The Defense Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roles in defending the nation from attack, assisting our civilian partners with homeland security activities, and providing defense support of civil authorities in response to both man-made and natural disasters have gained prominence within the last decade. Accordingly, the Secretary placed more emphasis on domestic military operations, including Defense Support of Civil Authorities (or DSCA) than in previous reviews. With this QDR, Homeland issues were front and center â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one of four substantive issue teams along with irregular warfare, high-end threats, and global posture. The Civil Support issue team received a great deal of attention with significant senior leader engagement. This was also the most collaborative and transparent QDR with respect to our interagency and international allies and partners. It was particularly helpful that the Department of Homeland Security was working on their inaugural QHSR. Many overlapping issues were coordinated between the two reviews. This cooperation will prove valuable down the road. The QDR, focused on a number of topics (force planning construct, prevention issues, partner agency capabilities, technology initiatives), but the primary focus was the evolution of CBRNE consequence management forces.

Rather than building three large response forces to be employed at the federal level under NORTHCOM, DoD is shifting its approach to better reflect the balance between the federal and state governments. Beginning at the end of FY2011, DoD will start placing a National Guard based Homeland Response Force (HRF) in each of the ten FEMA regions. The HRFs will consist of about 560 personnel each. The HRFs will contain CBRNE capabilities similar to the existing CERFPs, but will also have substantial additional C2 and security capabilities. HRFs will be employable by the governors within six to twleve hours of an event. Depending on the size of the event, multiple HRFs could be employed in response to a governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request to other governors via emergency management assistance compacts. Another important step forward with the HRFs is that its units will be fenced for two years in the six-year force rotation cycle. This will ensure time for training and mission focus and will enhance the readiness of these forces. In peacetime, HRFs will work with states, the NORTHCOM DCO, and FEMA regional managers to strengthen state and regional planning, training and exercising. The Department is working now to develop a detailed implementation plan for the evolution of these forces. An important piece of the concept for these forces

Q. Share with us the ASD/HDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations for the roles and responsibilities for CSTs, CERFPs and similar units in homeland defense -- are any changes in roles and missions for these units on the horizon? A: The 2010 QDR recommends a number of changes to CBRNE response forces. First, DoD will re-structure CCMRF 1 to be larger and faster than it is today, with more life saving capabilities. For a no-notice event, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CCMRF can begin bringing a number of forces to an incident within 48 hours of an event, with the entire CCMRF arriving at the incident site in 96 hours. This will not be fast enough if the US experience a major terrorist attack. Under the new construct, the restructured CMRF will still contain Title 10 Forces, but it will be able to place 2000 personnel on the ground in 24 hours, with the remaining 3000 personnel arriving 48 hours after the event. This is a significant improvement in terms of responsiveness. The restructured CMRFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emphasis will focus on life-saving tasks and will be equipped primarily for a CBRNE event. CCMRFs 2 and 3 will be downsized significantly to become command and control elements for Title 10 general purpose and specialized forces in the event of multiple simultaneous events. It is very important that the federal government retains the capability to command and control more than one event at the same time. Each C2 element will have logistics and sustainment capability for up to 45,000 forces, and can reinforce the re-structured CMRF in a truly catastrophic event.

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Leadership Perspective is the use of HRFs to help integrate the range of response forces we already have – such as the WMD-CSTs and CERFPs at the incident scene. The HRFs will have a robust C2 element and can play a key role in this regard. Each C2 element will have logistics and sustainment capability for up to 45,000 forces, and can reinforce the re-structured CMRF in a truly catastrophic event. More broadly, in terms of command and control, this evolution in DoDs approach to CBRNE forces will enable DoD to operate more effectively across the range of potential response scenarios. HRFs can be employed in State Active Duty or Title 32 working solely for the governor, where the state Joint Force Headquarters provides C2 over the HRFs, CSTs, and CERFPs. HRFs can also be employed by governors and work alongside Title 10 forces employed by NORTHCOM, as was the case in Hurricane Katrina. Finally, in extreme cases the President could federalize all response forces, including HRFs, and have a single chain of command. The bar for this scenario is set very high and would only occur in an overwhelming catastrophe. States have much to gain by this change in approach. Faster, regionally dispersed forces will be available to governors. The HRFs will be a catalyst for more regional integration within the FEMA regions, closer working relationships with the FEMA regional offices, the DCOs and their staffs, and with individual states in the regions. Q. Briefly explain the office’s FY2010 goals to strengthen nation’s homeland defense capabilities. A: The Council of Governors. In January, President Obama signed an executive order establishing the Council of Governors and the first meeting was held on 23 February 2010. The Council is composed of 10 appointed governors and just held its first meeting last month. The Council’s intent is to facilitate discussion on homeland defense and security matters between state leadership and the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security and other senior federal leaders. Direct Support Initiative. Unity of effort continues to be a challenge when it comes to domestic operations. It was central theme in the lessons learned from Katrina and was a central point of discussion during the QDR. Our office has been working actively to find a way forward that recognizes the Constitutional role of the President as commander in chief and the role of governors as sovereigns of their states. OASD HD&ASA developed the Direct Support Initiative as a starting point for discussion about a way forward on unity of effort and consists of several pillars. First, Direct Liaison Authority. Direct Liaison Authority or DIRLAUTH is a cornerstone of the Direct Support Initiative. DIRLAUTH was introduced in January of last year by Secretary Gates and is the authority “for Federal military forces to consult, coordinate with and respond to State authorities (including National Guard units and personnel operating in Title 32 or State Active Duty status) or Federal level civilians in the tactical-level execution of assigned tasks.”

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Second, we have proposed establishing Management Accords between states and DoD.

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Third, we would like to see detailed state and regional contingency plans, identifying likely requests for federal capabilities, including military, and their integration into the overall response effort. Based on these plans, we will help craft state-specific prescripted mission assignments. Fourth, we continue to build a robust training and exercise system to ensure that unity of effort mechanisms established under Direct Support, like DIRLAUTH and Pre-scripted mission assignments, operate effectively to provide a more effective response. We could use this exercise program to examine whether dual-hat commander authority could be used more expansively - for example: hurricanes. This initiative will send a clear signal to governors that DoD will be responsive to their needs in a way that will save lives and protect property, while respecting the separate state and federal chains of command under the Constitution. As a final part of the Direct Support Initiative, the Department will also seek approval of legislation that would make reserve component capabilities available to provide assistance to states for natural disasters, consistent with the Constitution, the law and regulations. The Department will hold off on submitting this legislation to Congress while the Department is still building consensus with the Council of Governors on strengthening unity of effort. Q. Is there any significant FY 2011 draft legislation or requested funding changes that will impact CSTs, CERFPs and other DoD units involved in homeland defense? A: DoD has offered no FY11 draft legislation that would directly impact CSTs, CERFPs, or DoD units involved in homeland defense. DoD has, however, offered legislation that would expand DoD’s ability to assist its Federal, State, and local partners. Specifically, DoD has offered proposals that would permit it to make excess nonlethal supplies available for domestic emergency assistance purposes (currently, it is permitted to do so only for overseas humanitarian assistance and to aid homeless veterans), sell surplus equipment to State or local homeland security and emergency management agencies (currently, it is limited to doing so with law enforcement and firefighting agencies), and help Federal, State, and local law enforcement or emergency responders prepare for nuclear, radiological, and high-yield explosives emergencies (currently, it is limited to doing so for chemical and biological emergencies). The major funding request for FY 2011 is the establishment of two Homeland Response Forces.

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Demron is a unique nano compound that may be incorporated into numerous personal protective garments for the military and medical industries, including full-body suits, vests, blankets and medical X-ray vests and aprons. The armor is used globally by members of the military, first responders, hazmat teams, police and fire-rescue personnel and health care professionals, among others. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) recently selected it to help improve firefighter safety. Because Demron acts like a liquid metal, it is thermo conductive and is the only protective fabric that enables passive and active cooling. Its self-cooling aspects provide significant reduction of heat stress and also make the wearers less visible through thermal imagers. For more info: http://www.radshield.com/about.asp

BIO 300 Radiation Countermeasure Drug Awarded Patent Humanetics Corporation reported that its BIO 300 medical radiation countermeasure drug candidate has been issued a U.S. patent. The patent is assigned to the United States of America with Humanetics as the designated licensee. BIO 300 was discovered by researchers at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), a research institute within the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Humanetics obtained a worldwide exclusive license from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., acting on behalf of USU and NIH, for patents covering the use of BIO 300 as a medical radiation countermeasure. Patents protecting BIO 300 have now been issued in the United States, Europe and Australia - with others pending in Japan and Canada. BIO 300 is being developed as a medical countermeasure for ionizing radiation resulting from a nuclear or radiological attack, act of terrorism or accident. The initial application of BIO 300 is intended for military and civilian protection from events involving a nuclear device or weapon. However, the company said today it also will focus on applications in medical diagnostics—particularly in the area of CT scans which have been linked recently to excessive levels of ionizing radiation. For more info: Pam Pettinella - pam@latitude-c.com

Phase I Clinical Trial of Acetylcholinesterase for Biodefense Indications Launched Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. has initiated a phase I clinical trial of PRX105, the company’s plant cell expressed pegylated recombinant human acetylcholinesterase product candidate in development for biodefense indications. The trial is designed to study the safety of PRX-105 by administering a bolus intravenous injection of PRX105 in healthy volunteers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Israeli Ministry of Health have each accepted the company’s exploratory Investigational New Drug application to commence the phase I clinical trial of PRX-105. Pre-clinical studies have previously indicated that PRX-105 successfully protects animals exposed to organophosphate nerve gas agent analogs, in both the prophylactic and post-exposure settings. In addition, the safety of PRX-105 has been demonstrated in a well-controlled study in rodents performed under good laboratory practices. For more info: Brad Miles brad@bmccommunications.com

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Canadian DND Selects Shelter System to Protect Against CBRN Threat HDT Engineered Technologies (HDT) won the Collective Protection (ColPro) Shelter Systems contract with the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND). HDT will provide 13 Transportable Collective Protection (ColPro) Shelter Systems protected against CBRN threats. The security environment has changed significantly in recent years, placing new operational requirements at the forefront. “The HDT complete turnkey solution will increase

the Canadian Forces response capability, particularly in austere environments, in support of domestic, NATO, United Nations and other coalition operations. This program solution contains expeditionary products, training, logistical services, and repair/overhaul support to assist the DND,” read a company statement. For more info: Christina Rubino crubino@jansoncom.com

Contracts Awarded for CBRNE Support Services The US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded 10 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contracts for CBRNE support services at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The 10 ID/IQ contracts have a 5-year period of performance and a total value of $485 million for all awardees. Work will be performed at ECBC facilities on Aberdeen Proving Ground at contractor offices, and at other customer sites as required.

The winners of the 10 contracts are:

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Batelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio (W911SR-10-D-0009) Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Va. (W911SR-10-D-0006) Chamber Corp. in Huntsville, Ala. (W911SR-10-D-0001) ITT Corp. in Alexandria, Va. (W911SR-10-D-0008) Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Mo. (W911SR-10-D-0005) Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp. in Herndon, Va. (W911SR-10-D-0007) Science and Technology Corp. in Hampton, Va. (W911SR-10-D-0010) Science Applications International Corp. in McLean, Va. (W911SR-10-D-0004) Scitech Services in Edgewood, Md. (W911SR-10-D-0002) Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Ala. (W911SR-10-D-0003)

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s o P The Joint Services are addressing the common threat of bioterror attack with decontamination techniques unique to force requirements. By Chris Sheehy, Editor

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is responding to the potential threat of terrorist attack using Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) with strict consequence management, incident response, training development, equipment maintenance, and the deployment and redeployment of response teams. In many ways mirroring the operational and training methods used by the Department’s civilian counterpart national civil support teams (CSTs) and National Guard units, DoD today is operating in contaminated and austere environments implementing multiple levels of individual protection to achieve and maintain high levels of readiness under wartime conditions. The

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two units with bioterrorism response capabilities, the U.S. Army’s Technical Escort Unit (TEU) and the Marine Corps’ ChemicalBiological Incident Response Force (CBIRF). From a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) perspective, the U.S. Air Force has implemented a patented CBRN decontamination system called the Contaminant Air Processing SystemTM (CAPSTM) as a means of dealing with post-attack response. CBIRF is a task organized, self-sustaining unit consisting of approximately 375 Marines and sailors from a variety of Military Occupational Specialties. CBIRF is most effective when forward deployed in response to a credible threat or to protect events of national significance. CBIRF elements are capable of chemical/biological agent detection and identification, hazard prediction, advanced life saving and triage, evacuation of victims from contaminated areas, decontamination, incident site management and security as authorized. CBIRF is a highly trained consequence management force tailored for short notice response to terrorist initiated chemical and biological incidents. This unit owns and maintains commercially available radiological, biological and chemical

defense equipment, general support equipment and medical equipment.

Personal Protective Equipment For an isolated radiologic incident, level D personal protective equipment (PPE) is all that is required. Level D PPE consists of surgical gown, mask, and latex gloves (universal precautions). If airborne contamination is a possibility, the use of a fitted air-purifying respirator (N95 or 100 filter mask) increases protection. Eye protection should also be worn to prevent ocular contamination from any splashing during the decontamination procedure. If any possibility of mixed exposure exists, higher levels of PPE may be required as dictated by the chemical or biological agents involved. Local and state laws, facility protocols, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations must be followed. Shielding devices that are normally used for radiology studies are not recommended for radiologic decontamination. These devices, such as lead aprons, were designed to block low-energy radionuclides and are not effective shields for the highenergy emissions present in most decontamination situations. In addition, their bulk hinders the decontamination

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process and therefore leads to an increased exposure time. Shielding capacity is limited in the hospital environment. However, other factors may potentially limit exposure to those providing patient decontamination. These factors are time, distance, and quantity. The longer the time spent in the contaminated environment, the greater the dose of radiation to the worker; therefore, a rotating team approach is advised. Doubling the distance from the radioactive source decreases the dose by a factor of Likewise, limiting the quantity of radioactive items in the decontamination area is advisable.

CAPS The U.S. Air Force uses a patented CBRN decontamination system called the Contaminant Air Processing SystemTM (CAPSTM), an advanced platform for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive decontamination. It is a compact, self-contained, mobile, and air-transportable system that provides all the necessary components required for establishing a stand-alone Contamination Control Area (CCA). This standardized CBRNE decontamination platform consists of a main system and supplemental smaller kits and systems designed for interoperability.

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organizations such as local fire, police, EMS and similar departments. CAPS™ can be effective for mass decontamination of large numbers of personnel safely and efficiently, while also being able to effectively decontaminate just a few personnel.

patient decontamination should not be delayed by attempts to contain run-off. However, facility protocols and local, state, and federal laws should always be followed. After gross decontamination, the patient should be wrapped in a sheet for transport into the ED.

CAPS™ is now part of the CBRNE decontamination infrastructure for the United States. Based on the CAPS™ platform, specialty systems have been created that accommodate a wide range of end user applications, including Special Operations Command (SpecOps), bomb ordinance disposal teams, building entry control, and Hit and Runä kits designed for small specialized units.

If the patient requiring decontamination becomes medically unstable at any point during the process, provision of medical care should take precedence over decontamination. The risk to care providers when treating a patient with radiologic contamination is virtually nil. If available, a radiation survey meter can be used to identify the extremely rare case of a patient who is emitting an amount of radiation sufficient to cause concern.

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Gross decontamination is usually performed before the patient reaches a hospital environment. It consists of removal of all of the patient’s clothing and, if possible, brief irrigation of the patient’s entire body with water. Clothing should be removed with a careful “rolldown” method to prevent inhalation of airborne particulates. If the patient is contaminated solely by a radiologic source, water is sufficient for the washing. If a possibility of mixed contamination exists, the protocols for biologic and/ or chemical decontamination should be used because these regimens are more extensive than those used for radiologic decontamination. Since most radiologic contamination is located on the head and hands, the patient should be in the “head-back” position during initial showering to prevent run-off into the eyes, nose, or mouth. Early hand washing is also important. Gross decontamination removes more than 95% of external contamination and renders the patient safe for access by care providers.1 If gross decontamination has not occurred in the field, it must be performed by ED personnel in a designated decontamination site. In most centers, the decontamination site is outside and immediately adjacent to the ED. The small amount of radioactivity present in the irrigation runoff produces minimal risk to the communal water supply or groundwater; therefore,

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In the event of a mass casualty incident, gross decontamination is all that is immediately necessary. Patients should disrobe, with assistance if necessary. If able to ambulate, patients can briefly shower in a decontamination area. Likewise, the decontamination team needs only water to briefly wash patients who are unable to shower themselves. At this point, patients are sufficiently decontaminated and can receive treatment of any medical problems. Secondary decontamination of these patients can be postponed until more resources are available.

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Secondary decontamination is a stepwise methodical cleansing of any remaining radioactive areas of the patient. It should be performed under the guidance of the hospital’s Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) or another member of the team trained in the use of radiation detection devices (RDD), such as a radiac instrument. An area in the ED should be set aside for the decontamination procedure. Because this area may be out of service for a significant period, a location should be chosen that would not interrupt the normal workings of the department. A path to the decontamination room should be made with paper floor coverings and clear barriers to prevent the spread of contamination. In addition,

these barriers prevent the entrance of extraneous personnel and visitors. A decontamination team customarily consists of the RSO and two assistants, one of whom may be a clinician. However, in a mass-casualty setting, clinicians will likely not be available to perform decontamination. All members of the team should change out of their normal clothing into attire that can be bagged after the procedure. Shoe coverings, surgical masks, and eye protection should also be worn. Each member should be issued a dosimeter, which is a device that passively measures exposure to radioisotopes. The general procedure for secondary decontamination involves using an RDD to perform a head-to-toe survey of all areas of the patient’s body. Further irrigation is required for any areas with readings above the threshold, which is determined by the RSO on the basis of the RDD calibration. All secretions and runoff should be collected for sampling and dose estimation. After irrigation, the areas are surveyed again. This process is continued until acceptable levels are reached. Acceptable levels may be slightly above baseline and should be determined by the RSO and treating physicians.

Looking Ahead The Army has also been studying a guardian brigade to consolidate many of its chemical and biological defense assets: outstanding technical escort unit soldiers, CBRRT, some chemical companies, explosive ordnance disposal experts, detection experts, and numerous scientists. Unfortunately, these assets still consist mostly of headquarters and technical experts. The proposed organization contains very few soldiers equipped to go downrange and none specifically trained for search, extraction, decontamination, and treatment of casualties. Combining them in a brigade may offer training and organization benefits but will not increase the number of responders on the scene. However, it will require more personnel for the brigade headquarters. contact@tacticaldefensemedia.com

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U.S. Army Advanced CBRNE Training Team at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC Advanced CBRNE Training Program delivers knowledge to first response community members. By Michael Cain and Carrie Poore, Ph.D.

The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) Advanced Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high yield Explosive (CBRNE) Training Program located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Edgewood Area, (APGEA) was established to impart CBRNE knowledge to military personnel by providing them a direct relationship with ECBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subject matter experts (SMEs). The team falls under the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). The mission of the training program is to customize courses that meet the

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specific objectives of various teams of military personnel. The courses consist of individual modules that range from briefs by SMEs to small group hands-on activities to full team group activities. In order to fulfill some particular objectives a team may be divided into their specialized competencies and train simultaneously on different topics to further enhance their knowledgebase. In order to address all of the objectives which the customer requests, the training period can range from a one- day to a two -week course.

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other assets are; the Chemical The ECBC Advanced Transfer Facility for proper CBRNE Training Team does practice with field detectors have the ability to travel to a and chemical agents, the midcustomer’s location and provide size chemical plant for proper value added CBRNE training, sampling and disablement of but in order for full utilization mid to large scale chemical of ECBC’s SME’s and unique facilities, the Bio Engineering CB facilities, it is encouraged Laboratory for proper sampling that training events be held at and disablement of mid to APGEA. Some of the Training large scale biological facilities, Team’s customers include the biological level 2-3 laboratories 22nd and 110th Chemical for proper practice with Battalions, the 20th Support sample handling and detection Command, DoD Special equipment. In addition, several Forces, Tech Escort J5 School, Left to right: Todd McKinney, Carrie Poore, Mike Cain, Marcus Thermos, and other areas are designated Civil Support Teams (CST’s), Beth Hood for functions to support the specialized Department of Homeland Defense first responders and the U.S. Army learning process to include classrooms designed for specific group activities as well as vacated housing units that Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School. facilitate the practice of executing a sensitive site exploitation Customers can choose from courses offered at the assessment of a suspected CBRNE area. following link, http://www.ecbc.army.mil/ps/svcs_advanced_ Training courses are designed to impart CBRNE knowledge cbrn_training.htm or one that is customized for their particular unit and/or mission. All modules which make up the courses that can range from establishing an introductory baseline to an are updated yearly and when new information dictates. As advanced college level. Modules within the course incorporate per our mission statement, ‘the objectives of various teams traditional lectures, small group hands-on analytical projects are met,’ inclusion of unconventional CBRNE agents are with included lecture and discussion, and lecture topics discussed in the briefs to include, but not limited to: toxic within pertinent ECBC CBRNE facilities. In most courses the industrial agents, illicit drugs and high energetic materials. capstone event is a full team execution of a sensitive site. Incorporation of such material has been highly requested as The site utilized can range from residential to large of late due to the changing environment of threats faced in assembly halls to various clandestine laboratories. A range the field. of ancillary personnel can assist with this process in the Input for all modules comes from a variety of experts roles of evaluators, incident commanders, force protection, with hands-on day-to-day field and laboratory experience bothersome print or electronic media and victims. Simulants throughout ECBC and sister organizations. Specifically, can be utilized that can evaluate the team’s ability to sample, the experts that support the training team mission are: decontaminate and analyze chemical and/or biological personnel who have developed the protection, detection, agents. This entire event can be recorded in order to analyze sampling, mission planning and hardware utilized by all at a later date. Other types of capstone events include various of our customers, the U.S. Army Public Health Command activities such as small group execution of several CBRNE (Provisional) [USAPHC (Prov)], the U.S. Army Medical sites to small group construction of clandestine laboratories Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the to traditional individual written tests. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical From the first request to the post training after action report, Defense (USAMRICD) and of course soldiers, who have completed relevant missions in the field. In addition, a each aspect of a training event is under an ISO:9001:2008 memorandum of understanding was implemented between Quality Management System. Customer objectives are ECBC and the CBRN School that specifically addresses a recorded then properly matched to instruction. Each module, support mission of developing and executing critical training its execution, and the personnel involved must be under the materials and exercises for the warfighter. The ability to quality system. The system then monitors customer and leverage from the all of aforementioned knowledge bases student response to evaluate if the original objectives have allows the training team to deliver the most up-to-date been met. mission critical relevant CBRNE material. Training courses and relevant modules can be viewed at the website mentioned previously in this article. Customized Facilities Support Instruction training events can be scheduled using contact information Along with relevant material, which is imparted within highlighted at the site, http://www.ecbc.army.mil/ps/svcs_ a proper student-friendly classroom, the Training Team advanced_cbrn_training.htm or by calling (410) 436-8069. utilizes several other facilities that reflect the CBRNE mission contact@tacticaldefensemedia.com currently being executed by the U.S. Army. Among these

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Domestic Preparedness: Coordinating for Readiness First response teams nationwide are working more closely with DoD-trained units to ensure that the country’s civil response to bioterror attack is rapid and robust. By Ed Ward, Correspondent

The ever changing world has forced the DoD chemical world to rethink their training approaches and the direction the Soldier, Airmen, Sailors, Coast Guard Sailors, and Marines conduct CBRNE operations. Like the nation’s first responders, DoD is recognizing that whether an incident is a WMD or regular CBR, the training and equipment for the response is the same. An All-Hazards approach with common training, equipment and certifications will allow any DoD unit to respond to and assist in a civil incident. The nation’s responders have specialized teams and equipment to respond to any incident but they do not have the resources that the DoD special teams have. In a large scale incident, the assets and teams of DoD will greatly enhance the capabilities of the first responder agency.

A Combined Effort Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) and General Physics Corporation’s (GP) Domestic Preparedness Equipment Training Assistance Program (DPETAP) supports the nation’s first responders in CBRNE detection, protection and decontamination equipment training, as well as DoD’s Civil Support Team ( CST), CBRNE-Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) and Homeland Response Force (HRF) units. The PBA was designated the nation’s premier Chem/ Bio (CB) Arsenal by the Secretary of the Army and, with the backing of the Department of Justice (DOJ), a CBRNE equipment training program was born in 1998. The program was transferred from DOJ to the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in March of 2003. The mission of DPETAP is to provide CBRNE detection protection and decontamination to the nation’s first responders and first receivers. They added service to DoD in 2009, through the Installation Protection Equipment Training (IPET) program; a part of DPETAP.

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DHS/FEMA Domestic Preparedness Equipment Training Assistance Program (DPETAP) provides WMD detection, personal protective equipment and mass casualty decontamination training and technical support to the emergency response community. There are currently 53 courses and 8 exercises in the catalog. DPETAP operates by use of mobile technical assistance teams – on site (jurisdiction). All detection equipment courses covers theory of operations, capabilities and limitations, pre-operations/ operations, maintenance, and decontamination training. Other services provided include technical information service where anyone can call an 800 number and receive immediate answers to questions or potential problems and the DPETAP training at PBA. DPETAP tailors all training to the needs of the requesting jurisdiction. To date, 1,663 agencies, 6,983 courses, and more than 90,000 students taught in 46 states and two territories including 9,316 participants in tabletop exercises. There have been a total of 210 CST attendees during the last ten years of training.

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Installation Protection Equipment Training program (IPET) includes CBRNE equipment training involving Installation Protection Program (IPP) and Army Emergency First Responder Protection (AEFRP) equipment. It is offered monthly and on-site at PBA or can be conducted at the requesting unit’s site. DPETAP Instructors are all certified HAZMAT Technicians and come from all disciplines of the response world. Many are former military of all services with chemical backgrounds as well as fire, police and EMS. For more information, visit http://homelandsecuritytraining.gpworldwide.com

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A Policy Boost for DoD CBRNE Programs 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review provides important policy direction to the department for providing appropriate support to civil authorities. By Chris Sheehy, Editor

The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review provides policy direction to prepare the department for a broad range of security challenges and threats on the horizon – including cunning nonstate groups and other actors which are developing more destructive means to attack the United States. This review also allows DoD to reorganize its force structure and bolster its enabling technologies to better detect and counter threats across the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and highyield explosives (CBRNE) spectrum.

Force Reorganization The department’s CSTs, CERFPs, CBIRF and other units comprise a specialized consequence management response force for CBRNE events. Given the potential for more lethal and surprise attack across these threats, DoD is reorganizing these forces to enhance their lifesaving capabilities, maximize their flexibility, and reduce their response time. DoD is starting to restructure the original CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force (CCMRF) to increase it s ability to respond more rapidly to an even in the U.S. To provide a mission ready force that can address the threat of multiple, simultaneous disasters, “the second and third CCMRFs will be replaced with smaller units focused on providing command and control and communications capabilities for Title 10 follow-on forces,” the QDR said. As the first CCMRF evolves, DoD is also directing the National Guard to build a Homeland Response Force (HRF) in each of the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency

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(FEMA) regions. “The 10 HRFs will provide a regional response capability; focus on planning, training and exercising; and forge strong links between federal level and state and local authorities,” the QDR added.

Bolstering CBRNE Technologies Industry representatives may be well advised to follow the department’s efforts to enhance the technologies in its CBRNE tool kit. DoD seeks to accelerate the development of radiological and nuclear detection capabilities. Specifically, it will “improve its ability to detect radiological and nuclear material and weapons as a distance,” the QDR said. Developing and fielding these sensors is envisioned to make possible more effective wide-area surveillance in the maritime and air approaches to the U.S. and will help address the challenge of locating and securing nuclear weapons and materials during overseas contingencies. The department also wants to enhance the nation’s domestic counter-improvised explosive device (IED) capabilities. The 2010 QDR provides very broad policy direction to better prepare the department to support civil authorities seeking to counter potential threats from domestic IEDs. The QDR directs DoD to “assist authorities with counter-IED tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and capabilities developed in recent operations.” contact@tacticaldefensemedia.com

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